Train-order holder.



C. J. QUAY. TRAIN ORDER HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.30. 191a.

Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARPENTER J. QUAY, 0F MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TRAIN-ORDER HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARPENTER J. QUAY, citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Train-Order Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to trainorder holding devices; and it contemplates the provision of a train-order holding device embodying such a construction that its major portion can be formed of short pieces of wood, the use of wood for the purpose being advantageous because of the cheapness, light-t ness and durability of such material, and the utilization of short pieces of wood being of advantage because of the difliculty of securing single pieces of the requisite length and thickness.

lVith the foregoing in mind, the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the device constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention that I have as yet devised; the same being shown with the handle broken. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view showing the Y-shaped coupling which constitutes an important feature of my invention, and the parts socketed in said coupling. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of the handle joint.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The hoop 1 of my novel device is formed of a single piece of wood, bent into the form illustrated so that its end portions converge, and in crosssection the said piece of wood is preferably, though not necessarily, circular.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, the handle of the device is made up of two pieces 2 and 3 of wood, and a sleeve 4 which is preferably of sheet metal.

In addition to the hoop and the handle, the device comprises a coupling or connector 5. This latter is preferably of sheet metal and includes a tubular stem 6 and divergent tubular arms 7, fixed with respect to the said stem and extending upward and outward from the upper end thereof.

The ends of the hoop l are socketed and secured by nails or other suitable means in Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 30, 1913.

Patented Aug. 12,1913. Serial No. 745,198.

the coupling arms 7, and the end of the upper handle piece 2 is socketed and secured, bypreference, in the stem 6 of the coupling.

While I prefer to use a nail or other expedient to permanently secure the upper handle piece in the stem 6, I do not desire to be understood as confining myself to the same inasmuch as the handle piece 2 can be removably arranged in the coupling stem and frictional cont-act depended on to hold the coupling against casual displacement from the handle piece. I would further have it understood that when deemed expedient the ends of the hoop 1 can be removably arranged and held by frictional contact in the arms 7 of the coupling 5.

It will be manifest that when as suggested the ends of the hoop 1 and the end of the upper handle piece 2 are merely socketed and retained by frictional contact in the coupling, the parts of the device can be eX- peditiously and easily disassembled and. as readily packed or stored in a space of small compass.

As will be observed by reference to the drawings, the inner ends of the handle pieces 2 and 3 are beveled and lapped. This provision is made in order to enable each handle piece to lend strength to the other when the sleeve 4 is positioned around the beveled and lapped ends, and in that way lend stiffness and strength to the handle. The sleeve 4: is permanently retained in position about the lapped ends of the pieces 2 and 3 by nails or other suitable means. The sleeve 4: is only employed to permit of the handle being made of short pieces of wood, and I would have it distinctly understood that the sleeve 1 may be omitted and the handle made in one piece without involving departure from the scope of my claimed invention.

In the practice of my invention I equip the hoop with a clamp 8 for holding a train order or other message thereon. I also for the sake of strength and durability mount the said clamp which is constructed of wire and as shown, on the stern and divergent arms of the coupling 5, the said arrangement being desirable for the additional reason that the clamp does not contact with the wooden portion of the hoop and is not liable in any way to afiect the same.

My improved device is used in the same manner as train-order holding devices extantz'. 6., a message to be delivered to a locomotive engineer or trainman is clamped on the hoop 1, and the party holding the device by the handle stands at the side of a railway track With the device so positioned that the engineer or trainman of a passing train can run his arm through the loop and in that Way take up the device and the order or message thereon.

For the sake of durability the handle section 3 may, if desired, he provided With a tip 21.

I would further have it understood that the term wood as herein employed is intended to comprehend Wood of every description including ratan and the like.

IIaving described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The herein described t-rainorder-holding device, consisting essentially of a metallic coupling having a tubular stem and tubular divergent arms fixed with respect to each other and the stem, a Wooden hoop having its ends socketed in the arms of the coupling, a Wooden handle piece socketed in the stem of the coupling, and a Wire clamp body mounted on the stem and divergent arms of the metallic coupling and having a free portion constructed and arranged to hold a paper or the like against the hoop.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CARPENTER J. QUAY.

VVit-nesses JOHN D. LEBERMAN, Mao H. PERRY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

